Celebrating an amazing achievement
A large turnout to congratulate FAU immunologist Georg Schett on winning the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize
In December, the immunologist and FAU Vice President Prof. Dr. Georg Schett was awarded the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize from the German Research Foundation (DFG) in recognition of his outstanding scientific achievements. Friends and colleagues gathered in the Orangerie in Erlangen to celebrate his amazing achievement and congratulate him on receiving the most important German research award in recognition of his pioneering findings in the field of inflammatory and immune medicine.
2.5 million euros for FAU researcher and his work into immunomedicine.
His research gives people suffering from severe autoimmune diseases such as lupus new hope: Prof. Dr. Georg Schett has been awarded the most important German research prize, the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, in recognition of his work. The prize is not only a prestigious honor, it also entails 2.5 million euros in research funds for Erlangen, where Schett is Vice President Research, Chair of Internal Medicine III at FAU and director of the Department of Medicine 3 – Rheumatology and Immunology at Universitätsklinikum Erlangen.
The research funding program for top-level researchers
The Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize awarded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) is the most important research award in Germany. The Leibniz Program, established in 1985, aims to improve the working conditions of outstanding researchers, expand their research opportunities, relieve them of administrative tasks, and help them employ particularly well-qualified young researchers. The prize is endowed with up to 2.5 million euros.
More information on the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize is available on the DFG website.
Further prizewinners from FAU
All Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz prizewinners from FAU
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